Fraud accused pastor on the run

Crime & Courts / 21 February 2013, 3:10pm

SAPA

Bishop Robert Finn, of Kansas City, Mo., leaves a meeting at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' annual fall assembly in Baltimore, Monday, Nov. 14, 2011. Finn was indicted in October for waiting five months to tell police about hundreds of images of alleged child pornography that were found on a priest's computer. He is the highest-ranking church member in the sex abuse scandal to face criminal charges. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Cape Town - A pastor wanted for housing fraud is still being sought, Western Cape police said on Thursday.

Lt-Col Norman Joseph said the 44-year-old man, who is well-known in Retreat and Steenberg, was wanted in connection with 11 fraud cases.

He said people had accused the man of taking deposits from prospective home buyers and pocketing the money.

He was the owner of Bethesda Real Estate at the time.

“He allegedly took the complainants to view houses, took them to the bank for a deposit and then requested that the money be put into his personal bank account.”

The pastor apparently took R56 000 early last year and disappeared. - Sapa